Plenary

Full; complete. In the courts of admiralty, and in the English ecclesiastical courts, causes or suits in respect of the different course of proceedings in each are termed plenary or summary. Plenary, or full and formal, suits are those in which the proceedings must be full and formal; the term summary is applied to those causes where the proceedings are more succinct and less formal.

2 Chitty, Pr. 481.

PLENE ADMINISTRAVIT (Lat. he has fully administered). A plea in bar entered by an executor or administrator, by which he affirms that he had not in his possession at the time of the commencement of the suit, nor has had any time since, any goods of the deceased to be administered; when the plaintiff replies that the defendant had goods, etc., in his possession at that time, and the parties join issue, the burden of the proof will be on the plaintiff.

See Fowler v. Sharp, 15 Johns. (N. Y.) 323; 1 B. & Aid. 254; 11 Viner, Abr. 349; 12 id. 185; 3 Saund. (a) 315, n.

PLENE ADMINISTRAVIT PR /€ TE R (Lat he has fully administered except). A plea by which a defendant executor or administrator admits that there is a residue remaining in his hands unadministered. PLENE COMPUTAVIT (Lat he has fully accounted). A plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant avers that he has fully accounted. Bac. Abr. Acconipt (E). This plea does not admit the liability